Pre-Game Talk: Week of Anxiety (LA, NAS, STL, @CHI)

[tigervixxxen]

This week will go pretty quick with having a game every other day and I'll have the GDT up pretty soon but just in case. Plus I thought this would be a good week to do a points poll.

Tough week, we'll know a lot by the end of it.

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[InjuredChoker]

woof, real tough week. i'd take 4-5 points.


obviously it won't go like that. less than 2 or more than 6.

 

[UncleRisto]

I'm betting 2-3, prove me wrong. Please.

 

[Avsboy]

The Week of Wooing Drouin

Really...points on the line here, but think of the future points with Drouin in the lineup??

 

[Freudian]

Sooner or later they would have to start playing Central teams. It's probably good that they do it before trade deadline. Go on a crazy run and get some hope back or be out of it by February.

Not that it matters. Avs are never sellers either way, but in theory it's good to know.

 

[forsbergavs32]

LA - Win
Nashville - Loss
St. Louis - OT Loss
Chicago - Win

5 points

 

[Jayevs]

Glad to see our home record is about to go totally down the ****ter

 

[NothingLikeAnEJ]

Can't lose that Nashville game.

 

[ASmileyFace]

That's a hell week if I've ever seen one...

 

[Puckstop40]

This could be a rough week.

 

[PeterTheGreat]

Will the real Gabe Landeskog please show up (please show up....).

 

[LieutenantDangle]

Will the real Gabe Landeskog please show up (please show up....).

3rd line grinder? He's already showed up

 

[dahrougem2]

3 losses at home will be followed by a win in Chicago due to 40+ saves from Varlamov

 

[freeboy]

we need to return to the winning ways of the last streak, cycling on offense with a d man swinging into the play, a tough trap etc... last several games we have struggled against teams we really should be able to handle, and those points add up after awhile. I hope we can either find the right fit, now or never for the playoff hopes.... and if we lose this week I hope we can address some of these issues with a whopping multi player deal..
IT has just been so long since we had a two way team.

Go avs, I voted 5-6.. honestly happy with 5, anything more and I am overjoyed.

 

[Avs71]

This is week the team has been saving that 7 game win streak for. I think we will all be more optimistic about the playoffs at the end of this week.

 

[shadow1]

Can the Avs please beat LA?

0-1 against them this year. 0-3 against them last year. 1-1 in 2014 (a 1-0 OT win).

The Kings own the Avalanche.

 

[tigervixxxen]

Almost every game is low scoring though. It's going to be another 2-1 affair.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Stuart-Beauchemin paired together at practice lol

 

[Avs71]

Terrible week for EJ to be injured. Fingers crossed he just needs a day of rest.

The fact Stuart is filling his spot in practice makes me hopeful that it's a very short term injury. Otherwise you think they would put someone with Beauchemin who was actually going to play.

 

[henchman21]

Well, we wanted to manage Beauch's minutes. That is a way to do it.

I wouldn't read too much into it right now. Even if they are paired, I bet we see a rotation with Barrie, Beauch, and Holden playing 23-24+ minutes while the others play far less.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Stuart ain't playing tomorrow, so it will be interesting to see how the rotations work. I don't want Guenin and Beauchemin out much together, but I'm sure it will happen. I think that would expose Beauchemin a lot.

 

[cgf]

Well we won the one I thought we'd lose in regulation despite expecting 5-6 points from this week, so...yay?

 

[IceRat]

going to the game Sunday
hopefully the outcome is 1 point better than my trip on new years eve

 

[Freudian]

Congrats Biffkaka for being on a team with a guy scoring his 600th goal.

 

[Avs_19]

Barrie only had two points in October, got suspended for a few games, and is still on pace to put up more points than he did last season. Maybe another career season coming up and this one in a contract year.

Would love to see him play 25+ mins/gm while EJ is out. Hopefully Roy even gives him a look against opposing top lines. Better that than seeing Redmond/Guenin out there more. Best defense with EJ not playing might be a better offense. Let Barrie do his thing.